10 blogging tips from Fashion Foie Gras

She's the creator of one seriously stylish fashion blog and Emily Johnston has all the blogging tips you need to succeed.

It's exactly 4 DAYS until we reveal the shortlist for this year's Cosmo Blog Awards 2014 in association with Next and to whet your appetite, uber-chic Emily Johnston aka Fashion Foie Gras spills her blogging secrets to Cosmo.

1. Be ready to work hard! If it's your passion in life, you'll give it your all no matter what.

2. Know when to jump. I kept my day job for the first three years of starting Fashion Foie Gras. I wanted to make sure I had a stable base before jumping ship to do it full time. The jump wasn't any less scary, to be honest, but I felt I had a good foundation to work with in case of emergency.

3. Listen to those who have jumped before you. At the time of Fashion Foie Gras' founding, there were only a handful of bloggers doing it full time. I made sure to ask as many questions as I could when I had the opportunity from those in the know. There are so many lessons to be learned from those who walked the path before you. They tell you where all the speed bumps are and they're always right!

4. Don't worry. Worry is the most fruitless activity. If I could say one thing, it's to take all the moments of worry and turn them into drive instead. Be propelled by the emotion, not held back. If I had a pound back for every moment of worry I had in the beginning, I'd be a very rich woman indeed. Now every time I start to worry about the future, I think I should be using this emotion to create the future I want, instead of focusing on the one I'm afraid I'll have instead.

5. There are going to be setbacks. When I made the decision to be an entrepreneur, I had no idea what I was signing up for. There have been moments when I've thought I'd truly made a mistake. But I find with every setback, there's a huge recovery where I find myself in a better place than I was before the setback. The general idea is to be able to just deal with whatever gets thrown at you with panache.

6. Network the heck out of every situation. At the end of the day, that old saying, 'it's not what you know, but who you know that matters', really was true. Share your dreams for your future career with others and you'll be surprised at how quickly people will line up to help and offer up a connection or two. Some of the coolest company owners I know freely admit their company would be no where had it not been for some lucky connections at the right time.

7. Trust your gut. If something doesnt feel right, it isn't, end of.

8. Try saying yes to everything that you can. I so very rarely say no to anything. Of course this has created a bit of a problem in that there are only 24 hours in a day. But I feel as if in the beginning you have to take hold of every opportunity you are given.

9. Never think, 'aw I've made it so I can take a step back now and relax.' If you're really doing what you love, there is no stepping back, it's your whole life.

10. Congratulate yourself everyday for being one of the few people brave enough to do what you love every single minute of every single day. We all have the ability to do it but so few make the jump.

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